Drones Haploid and Diploid.

[busybeephilip]

Greengage, the virgin mated or not, will produce drones from her own genetic background eg queen sex alleles = A/C her drones will be A and C, when she mates with drone D her female offspring will be A/D and C/D
hope that makes sense

if your A/C queen was fertalized with drones from the same hive she was reared from ie A and C then the worker prodgeny would be A/A, A/C, C/C, and C/A. In this case there would be 50% inbreeding and the hive would never survive without a lot of help. This is of course simplistic as there are many different drones available to mate with your queen ie B,D,E,F,G etc...

should of added that females with same sex alleles eg C/C are not viable as the bees normally destroy these eggs

[Greengage]

OK I can follow that tks, fascinating creatures, all this localised breeding is not what it is cut out to be. The more I know the more, the more I know some breeders are pulling my leg. Not to worry its all good knowledge dont know how they will react when I tell them breeding from a couple of hives might not be the best idea. Looks like we need lots of drones for genetic diversity.

[prakel]

dont know how they will react when I tell them breeding from a couple of hives might not be the best idea

Make sure that they've got their heads out of the sand first otherwise it'll just be a waste of your time.

[Jon]

should of added that females with same sex alleles eg C/C are not viable as the bees normally destroy these eggs

These are not females. Having two identical sex alleles is what produces a diploid drone.
Homozygous at the CSD locus = male.